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Aaaaahhhh a great reference. Lyra made a pretty big oopsi
Such a good chapter You know he could use the portal trick to Hang out with his filly friends once he goes to CSGU his real body will stay with Dawn and he could have clones go out every weekend to hang out with a filly.
awesome and funny chapter
Broccoli and lettuce are both part of the cabbage family, so wouldn't this be like making scrolls out of human skin?
Nice
I know of a moss and pigeon covered statue in the Canterlot Garden Labyrinth who wholeheartedly disagrees and wants nothing more than front row seats.
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Assuming the lettuce is sentient, would you be correct.
slippery slope
Amazing chapter, it's really nice to see Cure back with his family and friends. That scene with Vines was pure feels.
Not true. The acceleration would be greater, yes, but a number of things prevent it from becoming infinite. First of all, creating a true vacuum is damn near impossible. actually impossible if we take into account certain quantum phenomena. I don't remember what it's actually called, but it's the thing where a photon splits into a proton and antiproton before coming back together and annihilating. Anyway, that would cause drag forces that would eventually balance themselves against gravity.
Second, there's gravity itself. Each ring, or half ring I suppose, is made of matter. The tube itself holding in the vacuum is made of matter. The atmosphere above the tube. The people near the tube. All have mass and thus gravity. This creates even more drag. So while in a vacuum a particle could accelerate up to devastating speeds, it'd be far from infinite, even before taking the universal speed limit into account.
Quantum tunneling portals. Surface-based instead of spherical, so they absolutely cannot be wormholes, nevermind the numerous other problems I don't know of since I'm not a theoretical astrophysicist. But they could be really useful. And the increased magic usage over distance makes sense with that, too. If it were wormholes, distance wouldn't matter.
Now Cure should see if teleportation can be mixed into the formula. If there's some sort of compressed matter stream that can be manipulated, send it through a small portal ring to increase distance while decreasing individual costs.
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Parchment is sheep skin and we're both mammals. Not the same, but it's more similar than different, I guess?
If Cure had attempted this when he fully mastered his puppet control, I could see that prank playing out a bit differently.
[Corporal Ricochet enters lobby after receiving call]
Briccoloid King: "A lowly corporal comes to meet me!? THE AUDACITY!! I demand that you deliver this message to your ruler immediately!" calling outside the door "Take it away!"
A cucumber with a tuba bounces into the lobby, bows slightly, before starting to play
After brief musical introduction, a tomato bounces in and starts singing
🎶If you like to talk to tomatoes
If a squash can make you smile
If you like to waltz with potatoes
Up and down the produce aisle...🎶
Several more vegetables bounce in singing the VeggieTales theme song
Ricochet and quite a few others watch on in bewilderment, though a couple of mares find themselves subtly bobbing to the tune
🎶It's time for VeggieTaaaaaaales🎶
With one final blow of the tuba, all vegetables suddenly poof away as if they were never there.
Everypony left in lobby remains still for minutes, processing what they witnessed.
I'm not a neuroscientist but I'm pretty sure that's not how brains work.
The big thing is that there's no way for normal brains to cache several seconds of instructions for something as complex as language. Neurons use electro-chemical pulses to communicate and don't really store signals for more than 10ths of a second. Instead information is stored within the structure of the network itself. Systems only work because of their integrated structure. And the structure of our language systems needs looping signals and external feedback to work. It takes more than a fraction of a second to come up with words because we basically make them up in real time while we're talking.
Cure could possibly be sending a low resolution impression of the ideas he wants to convey and let the puppet's brain handle the actual words like a GPT, except the part of the brain that does that (Broca's Area) is also in the prefrontal cortex. There's no way Cure could hold 2 conversations if the system works as described, and would probably have as hard a time paying attention to more than one as anyone else. It would probably be easier to not crash in flight than not crash a conversation, because flight can be offloaded much more.
The other thing is that if the connection were cut, the puppet probably wouldn't just go brain dead. The prefrontal cortex controls decision making, true. But the way it does that is by stopping the rest of your brain from doing it's own thing. Without it, the puppet would probably just have a massive seizure or something, which would be very noticable and concerning. If it didn't, it would likely act in an instinctive, animalistic fashion. But most likely seizures.
Also interesting to think about is that Cure and his puppets would be acting under different sets of hormones. If the puppet is in a high stakes situation it might act slower than Cure would because "it's" frontal cortex isn't full of adrenaline, or it might physically act more aggressive than it's words would indicate, etc.
Either way though, I don't think Cure can handle being as multipresent as he's shown here unless he's been messing with brains more than we're being told.
Sentient broccoli... I am generally a Pacifist, but considering inflation and food bills. Yeah, I'm going to need that shovel.
Broccoloids~
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I wouldn't be surprised if we soon reach a point where, like Pinkie Pie, we've just gotta shrug and say "It's Cure, don't question it for your own sanity"
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I'm pretty sure that stuff about gravity isn't true. Air resistance matters because it applies a force opposite to the direction of motion proportional to the velocity of the object. As it gets faster the greater the opposing force. The forces due to gravity are constant and overwhelmingly down. In fact they increase as the object reaches relativistic speeds and thus becomes more massive.
Even with air resistance it's still pretty bad. Because eventually the object would get the air in the chamber up to speed as well. Actually, even if it's just air in the tube it would still be pretty dangerous because the air itself would just accelerate. Fortunately that would just burn up the sides of the tube before getting completely out of hand.
Quantum Foam is the concept you're looking for with the vacuum. And it would have some drag, but I don't think it would stop the object from reaching those relativistic speeds. It might sandblast the thing apart though, making a bomb in a different way.
In really though, Cure is definitely right that the rig would be the first thing to fail and that it would probably be catastrophic.
I wonder if cure's entire plant system would get snapped away if he dies
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I was about to go on about how the closest humans and sheep are taxonomically is the Mammal Class, and how Broccoli and Lettuce both being of the Cabbage Family would mean that the furthest human equivalent to a sentient Broccoli person using lettuce leaves as scroll parchment would be humans using gorilla hide.
I was all about to do this, and I even went and looked up the Latin name for the Cabbage Family just to go all in, and what do I discover? The foundation of my statement is false! Lettuce isn't cabbage! How is lettuce not cabbage?! Look at a head of iceberg lettuce! How is that not a cabbage?!? No, internet, don't go telling me lettuce is a fucking DAISY!!!
...Sorry about that. So yeah, turns out the defining characteristic shared by all members of the closest taxonomical tier shared by both broccoli and lettuce is that the seedlings sprout from their seeds with two parallel leaves instead of one single leaf. That's it. By that logic, humans and sheep might actually be closer. My world is shattered and my day is ruined, excuse me.
I would love to see Celestia’s reactions to most of those pranks: laying an egg of himself at the Royal dinner table, an indignant broccoli ambassador attending Day Court, etc.
Do those rings also transfer sounds? A cleverly hidden one could make some funny sounds from under an important chair’s seat…
Could the rings be used to assist with bipass surgeries or temporary field medicine?
The puppets could be useful for things like the vampony incident to ensure the target’s location before sending the team into the unknown.
Will Cure have Serpentus and his puppet meet for a photo op? A royal endorsement could boost sales and thoroughly confuse the town. Also, that whole town knows. There’s no way they haven’t had town meetings about how to act around Cure.
100 chapters, 1.13 million words, and all in a year and a half... this has genuinely been a fantastic story so far and you should be proud of what you've accomplished.
Here's to (hopefully) many more chapters to go!
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Welcome to the party KatieBreeze, stick around for a while! No spoilers, but every time Cure interacts with Celestia is a real treat. You have so much good storytelling to look forward to, I am almost a little jealous that you get to discover all his adventures for the first time while I’m stuck rereading and counting the minutes to an update.
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AAAARGH, you beat me to it, EXACTLY what I was thinking
A hundred chapters... how the time flies by when you're having fun.
Keep talking like that and someone's statue might start cracking 100 years early :P
You know, all these shinanigans from Cure, he sure forgets something: he still hasn't met a Changeling.
A particularly skilled enough infiltrator is able to find weakness with Cure, like targeting his friends and family that are outside his plant's range. Worst yet, the Changelings themselves might even be capable of mimicking all of a pony's signature. Effectively invisible to his plants.
A perfect disguise.
Not only that, Cure has been known to be weird, which is a huge boon to Changelings in disguise. It lets them get away with more outrageous stunts.
Hey Chekov! I found one of your guns!
I had this exact idea months ago...
And now if I put it in any of my own fics, it would just look like plagiarism
Oh well, early bird gets the worm
Congrats on 100 chapters btw
Talk about being split brained. Pony minds just aren't designed for that. Now, certain types of changelings on the other hand... He could really improve the efficiency with even smaller rings, eliminating the need for bouncer hops. But it would still necessitate his current method of time sharing.
Poor mare just had a severe instance of empty nest syndrome, but hopefully can ride it with her still-here foals.
Wasn't there supposed to be an actual filly coming down for the impersonation? Or was that more in the evening? Won't they be surprised! Edit: I may be crossing our stories.... 🤔
Ohohohho, this is Good! And that prank is hilarious.
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Wouldn't that entirely depend on what Teleportation is? If it's moving really fast or not passing through the intervening space between those two points then the ring-portals won't do you any good-- too big to fit in the first and not using them at all in the second. Now, a Star Trek Transporter-like effect could take advantage of the ring-portals as could a method of shrinking the object to fit.
I would be rather careful not to drop one ring into the ocean where it would sink to the bottom swiftly, the other ring now (when activated) spewing highly pressurized seawater...
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That is a very good point actually. It's been almost a year since the story started, and Cure hasn't noticed a single potential channeling in his midst. It's not like he hasn't been looking, he found the vampony. There's only 3 reasons why he hasn't seen them yet.
They aren't interested in him. They are being properly wary of him. They're good enough to fool him.
The only way the first is true is if they're undergoing some kind of unrelated cataclysm or something. The other two are things to be very worried about. The magic system is largely based on D&D. Cure needs to invest in some Truesight.
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Nah instead of a pig make it a flying snitch from Harry Potter that could cause more chaos I mean a runaway pig aint too big and it could make for a sport for Pegasus that would be big.
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No plan survives contact with the enemy- Some guy in a book
🎵~My Little Terrorist, My Little Terrorist, A-Lu-Ack-Bar!~🎵
100 chapters, by god. Gotta be gettin close to the end of book one here
That's why I think Cure didn't think much when that stud wanted to be like the "prince" if Cure was the "Prince" then he definitely wouldn't agree to do that because it would be bizarre to have someone who wants to be like him out there.
The big 1 zero zero and with the best PPG episode referenced to boot? This really did just make my week
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You forgot, they are sealed behind a barrier. So it's probably the first option because they don't know he exists.
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Oh. When was that?
Heh...that last joke bit about the broccoli king went over my head a bit but I still found it funny...no idea where it's from and I can't look it up rn cause of where I am and how slow videos are on my phone these days...also yay new chapter!
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I don't remember, i do remember queen Novo and Celestia don't get along because of the sealing though.
That ending was MWA! Quite a great laugh. As always keep up the awesome work and I hope to see more soon!
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Changlings and the hippogryphs are discussed in
Chapter 75: Laying it All Out
down towards the last quarter of the chapter
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It’s from Powerpuff Girls: See 11853987
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Thanks...was actually gona check it out anyway when I can get high enough internet to watch stuff
"Impersonating." Word "person" isn't necessarily mean only "living human being" even though it is its most common definition. Furthermore, word "personality" already applies to nearly any creature or group of creatures. So, there's no need to have a pony version of these words.
The word "inhumane", though...